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<h2>Strikes Duration </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>a cross-section from 1968 to 1976
</p>
<p><em>number of observations</em> :  566
</p>
<p><em>country</em> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(StrikeDur)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>dur</dt><dd><p>duration of the strike in days</p>
</dd>
<dt>gdp</dt><dd><p>measure of stage of business cycle (deviation of monthly log industrial production in manufacturing from prediction from OLS on time, time-squared and monthly dummies)</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Kennan, J. (1985) &ldquo;The Duration of Contract strikes in U.S. Manufacturing&rdquo;, <em>Journal of Econometrics</em>, <b>28</b>, 5-28.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>Cameron, A.C.  and  P.K.  Trivedi (2005) <em>Microeconometrics : methods and applications</em>, Cambridge, pp. 574&ndash;5 abd 582.
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<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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